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Do I even say anymore that I know its been awhile since I've posted? Or is it really just a waste of both our time? I'll let you decide.

So back in July we moved my brother up to Arkansas for him to start work on his PhD. After about 4 days of mostly spending time in his apt I got incredibly stir crazy. So I convinced/forced my family to take part in some extended out door activity. We found a putt putt course. Pictures follow.

So yes I've been absent, life has a way of getting in the way of blogging and other activities. As to life, it has been interesting and changing as of late. Things that in some ways I would not have preferred happening, but I think in the end are for the better, and if nothing else grow me in my sanctification. We are so often eager to let God be sovereign in things that we want to do, and I think even accept Him saying no in those things, but if it is something we most certainly don't want to happen, then we have a much harder time accepting God's providence. However, it is always for our better, even if it is not something we thought would ever happen, or want. (Which has me wondering lately about the sovereignty of God is unbelievers lives but thats for another day.) I am doing an internship at Luby's cafeteria this summer. It is going fairly well, I don't think its what I would want to do, but not a bad job.

I made yeast rolls this morning for breakfast, and was going to post pictures, but I can't find my camera cord, so... Maybe I'll post those later. For those of you who remember my allergies, yea... not sticking with those too well at the moment lol.

I thought I had more to say somewhere, but maybe it will reappear in my mind at some point, probably in the middle of church of course. Oh and no, my spelling and grammar has not gotten better since I last blogged. Sorry, but not really.

So stay tooned for more of something, assuming anyone reads this anymore... (yes I meant to put tooned)

So its time for my monthly blog post :D

This one is certainly a mishmash of random stuff, but those are the fun ones right?

Through someone elses blog I have been considering doing reverb10's month of reflection. Which being that it is the middle of the month I suppose I should get working on that if I am going to do it... I do think some of the prompts are rather silly, so I most likely won't be doing all of them, assuming I do any at all.

As well I plan on making myself a flannel sheet, which I'm sure many of my readers can attest that cold sheets are not welcome in the midst of winter.

I also intend to fix my moccasins before the school break ends. See picture below for reasons why.

Is fantastical really a word? Well I think if it's not it should be.


At the end of September (yes I know its still a month away) a good friend and I will be going to Waco for David Crowder's fantastical church music conference. There are some speakers I'm really looking forward to, and some i'm not so much, but thats generally how it goes. It should be a really good time, if nothing else just for the two of us to get some really good fellowship in. I would appreciate prayer for safe travels, clarity of mind in determining what is good and what isnt, and for us just to have a blast. And yea I know its early, but its never too soon to get things started... :-p And who knows I might even blog about it afterward hehe.


Don't worry I will be putting up pictures of our trip to Austin soon, hopefully... Then again maybe you should be worried...

Yes, yes, I know I've been very bad about pictures especially, not just posting. I'm sure you have noticed that my 365 project kinda died. Anyway, my family and I are goin to Austin this weekend, so y'all might just get some pictures. And if anyone knows of some really good places to eat, feel free to mention em.

Well I finally got around to making myself a formspring/formstack. For those of you who don't know what this is, they are a survey form run by the same company, just slightly different format. Well here it is, I would love to have every fill it out.

Well I had a very interesting experience at the farmers market today. A friend of one of the other vendors came up and asked me if I wanted to be a silent auction item. For those of you who don't quite get this, let me explain. There is a practice, generally for charities, where people will hold auctions of either guys or girls, and people bid on having a date with them. Basically it's a blind date on steroids. While I was extremely flattered by being asked to be one of the participants, I declined the invitation. I just thought there are those of you out there who would get a kick out of this, lol. Feel free to ask for further explanation if that didn't make sense.

I'm really not sure why I even thought about this the other day, but I did. I was wondering how animals reacted around Christ. As far as I am aware there are only two instances mentioned of Jesus around animals, the pigs that He sent the demons into, and then the donkey He rode into Jerusalem. However, these accounts really don't say anything about how the animals reacted to Christ. I was just wondering if animals reacted normally, or if they were extremely docile or something. Just random thought I had, any thoughts anyone?

Well I intended to blog about my first day at Katz coffee after my first day, monday night, but I was really tired. I then intended to do it yesterday after work, same situation... So here I am finally blogging about it on my third day. I started an internship with Katz coffee, a local coffee roaster, on Mon, learning to roast and all the other parts that go along with it, like packaging and such. I'm enjoying the roasting, its in a warehouse "outside" so its hot, and pretty dirty, but I enjoy doing it so it's really not that bad. So thats that, might take my camera one day and post some pics we'll see.

So i've recently been thinking about making myself a formspring, or possibly adding a music player on my blog. What y'all think?

Well most of you know about my Bible study, and if you don't... Every other week I teach a college-ish age Bible Study at my house. Since awhile back I asked for advice and prayer, well at least prayer lol, about doing a Bible Study, I figured I should update y'all on how its doing. It's going rather well. I have about 10 to 15 people coming regularly. Everyone seems to be enjoying it, and learning from it. It has also been a blessing to me, and teaching and preparing has helped me grow in my walk with the Lord, and is preparing me for when I have a family one day and teach them. I appreciate your original prayers, and please continue to pray for it.

Thought for the Day*
Our pastor is going through Hosea right now at church, which is really cool,  and chapter 5, verse 12, says that God will be like a moth to Ephraim. If you're not familiar with Hosea, it is all about Israel, and their whoring after other gods. This reference to a moth is God saying, that He will destroy what is precious to Israel, destroy their idols, and their places of worship, which were, in fact, where they used to worship Yahweh. Our pastor used it in another, interesting, way though. He pointed out that you can also think of it how, sometimes when your standing outside your front door saying goodnight to friends, moths are buzzing around in your face, sometimes even getting in your mouth or ear. The moths distract us from our conversation. This is  when God puts hurdles in our way when we are going down a sinful path. These hurdles are to distract us, to knock us out of our revere, so we see that what we're doing is not good. I thought it was rather good, and interesting, hope you enjoyed my Thought for the Day.

*Titling this "Thought for the Day" in no way means I will post one everyday. Nor does it require me to post one everyday. If you are unhappy with this state of affairs maybe you should try and convince me to post everyday, or give me ideas of what I could post everyday,. If I did happen to post everyday, I in no way guarantee that it will be worth you reading.

P.S.
Today I am 20 and 1 month, feel free to send one month gifts :D

Well for Christmas my mama made (well kinda lol) me a quilt out of my old t-shirts from when i was a wee lad. But we still need to find the under fabric for it. We went to one fabric store, and I did figure out I probably want flannel, but we couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So if anyone knows of a good fabric store in town, I would appreciate it.

Well today my brother and I, along with a couple of friends, went down to Galveston for the day. I meant to take my camera and take some pictures, but I forgot. Camera not in hand, we walked around the Strand (why that name hmm?), and after attempting to go to Fuddruckers, which was closed, we ended up at Mediterranean Chef Restaurant. Food was rather tasty, but the service was absolutely HORRID. I won't go into details, just know that it was bad. We then found a book shop, bought a couple books, and then got back into our cars, and slowly made our way through the traffic to the beach. *Just heard a horrid pronunciation of incredulous on an audio book* We had a rather enjoyable time at the beach, just walked in the water a bit, no swimming. There is something truly enchanting about the beach/ocean. Well we then stopped at marble slab, and drove off into the sunset, yes we drove into the sunset, really.

I apologize for the lack of pictures.

Oh and on recommendation of a friend, i am listening to Harry Potter on tape. Rather enjoyable for fantasy, if you can get past a couple things.

Well after going to extra help, and extreme fiddling, i finally got my reactions to work on my blog, yay!

So Thursday night/Friday morning, after Bible Study, a friend, my brother and I went and saw Alice in Wonderland at midnight, it was terribly fun lol. Its a rather good movie, and it's worth seeing. Here are some pictures...

My friend helped me put together my costume for the evening, and this is her wanting to remove my head...

 

 

As I'm sure some of you have noticed my template is different. I am trying out some different ones over the next few days, so if y'all could vote and/or leave comments, I would appreciate it. :)

If you miss a day, here are links to the current templates I'm considering. Oh and if anyone has a template they would like to suggest please do. Specifically space, night time, or fantasy/foresty ones. The names are the names of the templates, and what they will be on the poll I am putting up.

Aspire/Parchment
Outside Our Window
This Beating Heart
The Drawn Eclipse